I’m a sucker for a selfie, but getting glammed up for a photoshoot zaps the personality out of me. I overthink how to smile and stand and turn into Chandler. A photographer directed my last shoot, but that was five years ago. It was time for a new headshot.
But this time, I didn’t have the colorful streets of Antigua, Guatemala, as my backdrop. With no trips coming up, I decided to test out an artificial intelligence tool with a goal in mind: to generate a new headshot or set of professional images that looked real, not like a caricature of me.